Re: C Function Memory Management

[Martin French <Martin.French@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> 
> One thing to know about it is that repalloc re-sizes the given chunk
> while keeping it in the same memory context it was originally allocated
> in (ie, CurrentMemoryContext doesn't matter).  This may not matter
much
> if you're only dealing with allocations that just live as long as
the
> current function call --- but if you're trying to preserve data across
> calls, it's critical to know.
> 
>          regards, tom lane

Thanks for this Tom, I'll keep that in mind for future
functions. 

In this particular implementation, it's not necessary
to preserve the data once the function is complete.

So out of curiosity, what would be your approach for
data preservation cross call?

Cheers

Martin
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